Title: GIS AnalystSalary: 70kExperience: 2.5 yearsEducation: MS in Geodesy (look it up). Need to have MS in Geography, Math, CS, or related field + little experience (mine was my thesis, essentially). Some here are hired with a BS and a few years related experience.

Most of my work is just data processing; I don't actually do much analyzing. I'd like to do more.

What would you say the prospects are for someone who is decent at the GUI side of GIS (e.g. making layers, shapefiles, and basic analysis using existing toolboxes) but not so versed on the highly technical side (e.g. producing interactive GIS maps on the web, extensive scripting) ?Just curious. most of my products are basic such as creating maps for planning documents or geospatially tracking projects.

What job titles would I look for? Geospatial/cartographic technician? Certainty not a true 'analyst'...?

You can still do well (in a HCOL area, probably almost as much as I make if you have >5 yrs experience). I'd look for a GIS or Cartographic Specialist position or GIS/Cartographic Technician position. Local governments are a good place to look, but they do not pay as much. If you can add skills like SQL or scripting, you'll have an easier time finding jobs and getting better pay.

Me:Title: lousyActual Job Description: Jr. IT Guy in a department of two, mostly sysadmin-type management with some programming, Lotus Notes head-basher, printer ninja, plus helpdesk-level "hey my mouse won't work" fixer-of-things.Salary: 35KAge: 24Experience: Been here just over two years, no other experience in this field on paper, but I've been dicking around with computers on my own since elementary school.Education: No college degree.

Girlfriend:Title: Self-Employed Traveling Showdog PhotographerSalary: variable of course, on-track for about 30K in 2015 (mostly in the second half of the year), more in 2016.Age: 23Experience: Lifetime of photography experience, ~6 years of shooting people for peanuts on the side, quit her day-job about a year ago as she focused on her niche and things started really picking up.Education: No college degree.

1) Teaching Assistant at a private University in a super HCOL city$129 per contact hour plus $1000 for grading final exams. I have 30 contact hours per semester, but the job itself requires ~12-16 hours per week of unpaid preparation. The pay works out to $6k and change per semester, I can get 2 or 3 of see gigs per year if lucky.Experience required: must be an advanced doctoral candidate, so >3 years into a PhD program. Have to be chosen by senior faculty from an abundance of qualified graduate students.

2) Graduate Research Fellow$26,000 per year, for 5 years maximumExperience required: BA/BS, MA, continuing high performance in PhD program. I also had to get into the dang program, it's hard to quantify all of my experience that went into the successful application, but my program accepts four students per year.

Title: Senior Associate (Law firm)Salary: $265,000 plus bonus (this year's bonus was $100,000)Age: 36Experience: Around 8 years. Which is longer than most people last in these high stress jobs. I know I am making a ridiculous salary right now, but it's not a long term job - once I burn out, I'm out. So I'm stashing.Education: BA, JD, LLM. Lots of student loans, but only at 0.9% interest so I'm paying the minimum each year.

Title: Senior Associate (Law firm)Salary: $265,000 plus bonus (this year's bonus was $100,000)Age: 36Experience: Around 8 years. Which is longer than most people last in these high stress jobs. I know I am making a ridiculous salary right now, but it's not a long term job - once I burn out, I'm out. So I'm stashing.Education: BA, JD, LLM. Lots of student loans, but only at 0.9% interest so I'm paying the minimum each year.

Wow! I hope you have had a very high savings rate. That is a killer income for an associate. 265k plus another 100k? $365k!!! I admit I am jealous, MountainGirl. My meager income is on the last page.

Title: Senior Associate (Law firm)Salary: $265,000 plus bonus (this year's bonus was $100,000)Age: 36Experience: Around 8 years. Which is longer than most people last in these high stress jobs. I know I am making a ridiculous salary right now, but it's not a long term job - once I burn out, I'm out. So I'm stashing.Education: BA, JD, LLM. Lots of student loans, but only at 0.9% interest so I'm paying the minimum each year.

Wow! I hope you have had a very high savings rate. That is a killer income for an associate. 265k plus another 100k? $365k!!! I admit I am jealous, MountainGirl. My meager income is on the last page.

Can I ask what kind of law?

Corporate law. It's the standard BigLaw salary scale. Unfortunately I'm also in an extremely HCOL area, but I'm working on the savings rate since I know I can only hack it in this kind of position for another few years at most. Just to add some perspective: It involves billing around 2300 hours (those are just the billable hours - add the never ending non-billable admin, training, etc. to that), working most weekends and evenings, and always being on call. My health related expenses are through the roof due to the stressful and unhealthy nature of this kind of job, and it's hard to keep personal relationships and friendships when you're always working and always have to cancel social plans, but again, I can tough it out a few more years.

Senior Software Developer or Senior Software Engineer depending on who you ask$150k with 20% bonus possible. Salary was a bit higher but I negotiated to work remotely from home at the lower salary with agreement to bump it back up if/when I join in person.

Either 2-3 or 5-8 years experience depending on how you count spending a ton of time in school.

I think I'm paid a bit higher than market for my experience level, but the company is looking to grow or fail fast and paying high salaries is one way to hire who you want quickly, the Amazon vs Ben Jerry's model. I look at the extra as danger pay for the possibility I won't be getting a salary let alone bonus if they run out of funding.

I love the variety of work in this field and you really do make a nice sum of money fairly quickly in more established markets. I am in San Diego so its a good market but not the best. There are a lot of ways to boost your pay in this field too, the most extreme example would be going into consulting, takes a bit of an entrepreneurial streak though.

And computer science educations are cheap, so you start making good money and you have and you most likely have a trivial amount of debt. Pay for the comp sci masters in about 2 years after graduating.

I make about average for my area and my job. The great thing is PLC programmers are always in high demand. The bad thing is I spent 4 years in the military earning money for college and another 5 years getting my degree and all I do is daydream about doing something else. Perhaps it's why I am so motivated to FIRE in the next few years. I maintain greater life satisfaction volunteering at a no kill animal shelter or teaching students at my kids school about alternative energy. (Renewable energy and the environment are my passion, along with animals).

Title: Controlling Specialist (Equivalent to Senior Financial Analyst).Age:37. Experience: 7 years.(I started working late in my life)Education: Two Masters, also an ABD if you know what that is. (I am way overeducated for my job because I wanted to work in academia but decided later corporate world would be better for me.)Pay: $80k base + 12% bonus. (Last job paid $90k, no bonus).

1) Cyberspace Engineer, Major (O-4), Alabama Air National Guard, $965/mo plus a few thousand in annual training pay. 15 years in service (6 FT to start, PT since).2) Operations Specialist, GS-0301-12/4, US Army. $78,471 last I looked. Just hit five years in this job but only 4 as a civil servant. Got hired on the strength of #1.3) Real estate, mostly just serving my own rental LLC, which is just starting to really take off. I'll have been licensed for 2 years in May, expect to profit $5-10K in 2016 and more the next year. Will keep this as my FIRE job, most likely. Love it.

I have made much more than this in the past (up to (£160k+ total comp) but after taking an extended work sabbatical a few years back I decided to avoid a management position this time around and rejoined my industry in a lower level (i.e.: less stressful) position.

I also have gotten RSUs or cash incentives these last several years as 'golden handcuffs' which have amounted to something on the order of $15-20k+ yearly. My husband makes a similar amount as a senior mechanical design engineer with similar education and experience. Engineering has been a very good field for both of us.

Title: Associate Professor (although should be full in Fall 2016)Salary: 73k (additional compensation for extra courses and extra duties I perform)Age: 42Experience: 20 years (10 years full-time)Education: Ph.D.

Job - Junior doctor FY1Wage £33,500age:25experience: it took an extra year of my life to get into med school second time roundeducation: 5 yr MBBS

I've had so far about £500.00 in five months from extra shifts and filling out cremation forms. The job is onerous, long hours and I have had weeks where I frequently have to work ~3 hours extra a day (I had a week of 7am-6pm, meant to work 8-4). Other shifts include 11am-11pm, 8pm-8.30am, 8am-8.30pm alongside 8am-4pm. If you want just the most cash for the least stress and work, this isnt it. Its semi rewarding, but fuck me, I can understand the urges many older doctors have to go part time. Probably my FI plan will be complete my 10 more years of training, do abit more full time and then start either part time or locuming. Next years wage will be around £38,500

Not sure if you’re interested in how much we do earn in Europe, but here is my current situation:

Title: Data Analyst in a consulting firm (Luxembourg)

Salary: 51.000 EUR + 13th salary + yearly bonus (last year that was 5.000 EUR), which equals to more or less 60.000 EUR p.a. Expecting to get a pay rise of 10-15% effective from January or February 2016. All figures are pre-taxes that pretty overwhelming all over Europe…

Arebelspy, your and your wife's story has been inspirational. Hope DH and I can get on the same page so we can save together.

Thanks! Working together is a huge boost. Good luck!

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We are two former teachers who accumulated a bunch of real estate, retired at 29, and now travel the world full time with two kids.If you want to know more about me, or how we did that, or see lots of pictures, this Business Insider profile tells our story pretty well.We (occasionally) blog at AdventuringAlong.com.You can also read my forum "Journal."

3) Real estate, mostly just serving my own rental LLC, which is just starting to really take off. I'll have been licensed for 2 years in May, expect to profit $5-10K in 2016 and more the next year. Will keep this as my FIRE job, most likely. Love it.

Did you get the license before you started picking up rental properties, or after? Also, did you have to get sponsored by an existing broker for your license and work under them for awhile to make it "official"?

Title: Senior Consultant (Though my work is really Software Testing)Compensation: 89K salary (6% 401k match, though it is only disbursed at the end of the year)Age: 29Experience: 7 yearsEducation: BBA in Computer Information Systems

Made a lot of money over a lot of years but really screwed up with trying to compete with the Jone's, though never paid for anything I couldn't pay cash for including our house. Lost my ass building and selling a house every 2 years on last one almost 500k of all my own $ and thats when i found MMM and got my shit together. While still working on improving my situation after 3 years of MMM was able to make up a lot of my losses and was able to retire.

Did you get the license before you started picking up rental properties, or after?

I was an accidental landlord for a few years - moved, rented out old house for a while, also got divorced and rented out rooms in my own place to pay the bills, etc. During those few years, I got good at the accounting and tax filing, and learned a few things about leases and best practices, but didn't graduate to any kind of purposeful, systematic approach that would make real money. Right around the time that I started kicking myself to get serious and save some real money so I could do it right, applying all the lessons learned, I met a couple of guys who were older and more disciplined but much less experienced with real estate, and who had been talking about rentals for a year or so but didn't know where to start. We figured out our skills and interests complemented each other well, and while talking about a partnership, I mentioned I had been toying with getting licensed. Between their agreeing to split the licensing costs three ways, and knowing I'd have enough business from our own buys to at least cover the $2K or so in annual costs, it was the trigger I needed. I've been profitable from the start, and the bigger the portfolio gets, the faster we'll buy.

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Also, did you have to get sponsored by an existing broker for your license and work under them for awhile to make it "official"?

That's pretty much the standard everywhere. You pass the course(s), tests, background check, etc, and a broker still has to vouch for you. Every salesperson who isn't a broker has to hang their license with a broker. Here you can take another class and a test to get licensed as a broker after two years (IIRC), at which point you can leave the company and start your own, or you can be an associate broker with the same company.Personally, I'm not interested in being a broker and may never be. I came in at a 70% split and am moving to 80% now that I'm fully fledged. In exchange for that cut, the broker handles a fairly extensive set of legal requirements that I am not at all interested in having to manage, including keeping me updated on new laws and professional standards; provides administrative support to ensure all my deals are properly documented and archived for audits by the state; provides technical support, including client interaction tools; gets me a good deal on a group buy for Errors and Omissions (E&O) insurance; reminds me of continuing education requirements and offers free or cheap classes to fulfill them; and generally does more than enough to earn their cut.Oh, and they throw great parties with free food at least once a month. ;)

Did you get the license before you started picking up rental properties, or after?

I was an accidental landlord for a few years - moved, rented out old house for a while, also got divorced and rented out rooms in my own place to pay the bills, etc. During those few years, I got good at the accounting and tax filing, and learned a few things about leases and best practices, but didn't graduate to any kind of purposeful, systematic approach that would make real money. Right around the time that I started kicking myself to get serious and save some real money so I could do it right, applying all the lessons learned, I met a couple of guys who were older and more disciplined but much less experienced with real estate, and who had been talking about rentals for a year or so but didn't know where to start. We figured out our skills and interests complemented each other well, and while talking about a partnership, I mentioned I had been toying with getting licensed. Between their agreeing to split the licensing costs three ways, and knowing I'd have enough business from our own buys to at least cover the $2K or so in annual costs, it was the trigger I needed. I've been profitable from the start, and the bigger the portfolio gets, the faster we'll buy. At some point

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Also, did you have to get sponsored by an existing broker for your license and work under them for awhile to make it "official"?

That's pretty much the standard everywhere. You pass the course(s), tests, background check, etc, and a broker still has to vouch for you. Every salesperson who isn't a broker has to hang their license with a broker. Here you can take another class and a test to get licensed as a broker after two years (IIRC), at which point you can leave the company and start your own, or you can be an associate broker with the same company.Personally, I'm not interested in being a broker and may never be. I came in at a 70% split and am moving to 80% now that I'm fully fledged. In exchange for that cut, the broker handles a fairly extensive set of legal requirements that I am not at all interested in having to manage, including keeping me updated on new laws and professional standards; provides administrative support to ensure all my deals are properly documented and archived for audits by the state; provides technical support, including client interaction tools; gets me a good deal on a group buy for Errors and Omissions (E&O) insurance; reminds me of continuing education requirements and offers free or cheap classes to fulfill them; and generally does more than enough to earn their cut.Oh, and they throw great parties with free food at least once a month. ;)

Interesting! I guess when I read that requirement I had assumed they would assign me deals or whatever, like a job. It sounds like they're mostly just a service provider and don't care if you're just writing your own deals, which seems like a much better arrangement to me.

I am a School Librarian in Ohio. I love my job but the field is being eliminated as money is just not there anymore so I would not recommend that anyone pursue this field. I am 47 and make 73,000. The hours are fantastic with 15 sick days each year.I have a MA in French and MLS. I have other hours post Masters which bumped my salary up by about 4 grand a year. Most teachers don't do this. The worst part is that Ohio revamped the pension system and you have to be 65 to retire now. I hope that my job lasts that long but I doubt it will. If not, I will probably pull my account and put it into 401K or IRA and go to Social Security or take half of my husband's. The previous system was not sustainable - too many people retiring at age 52 while there were less current teachers to pay in.

Considering how large the nursing profession is I'm surprised not to see more on here

Both of my parents are nurses, and neither of them make close to that, both RN's. May I ask what department you are working in? My wife is considering moving into the nursing field.

I'm in Northern California. California as a whole pays a lot more than other states for nursing and northern ca is more than southern. I work in the cardiac ICU, but the dept. doesn't usually make a difference in pay. Also night shift differential makes a big difference!

Another assistant professor checking in. Experience: 6 months.Salary: Total cash compensation will be about $190k in 2016 (yep, it's insane). And the perks are pretty decent--free public transportation, research funds to buy equipment (e.g., books, computers), super cheap membership to school gym, etc.

selfTitle: Manufacturing ManagerAge: 37Experience: 2.5 years in manufacturing, 13+ prior as an R&D Electrical Engineer, same company for 13.5 years currentlyEducation: BS Electrical EngineeringSalary: $109k

husbandTitle: Sr. Electrical EngineerAge: 48Experience: 17 years post-college, preceded by time in Navy, same company 16 years currentlyEducation: BS Electrical EngineeringSalary: $142k

HCOL area (San Diego). We will save a LOT more each month when the third kid is in public school and not preschool/daycare anymore!

Another assistant professor checking in. Experience: 6 months.Salary: Total cash compensation will be about $190k in 2016 (yep, it's insane). And the perks are pretty decent--free public transportation, research funds to buy equipment (e.g., books, computers), super cheap membership to school gym, etc.

Another assistant professor checking in. Experience: 6 months.Salary: Total cash compensation will be about $190k in 2016 (yep, it's insane). And the perks are pretty decent--free public transportation, research funds to buy equipment (e.g., books, computers), super cheap membership to school gym, etc.

I'm kind of surprised to see so many other professors on here, and the range in pay is CRAZY. Being in the social sciences, I know a lot of other fields pay better, but holy crap--190k at the Assistant Level?! Impressive!

Do any other professions have salary surveys for your profession? Actuaries have things like this which give salary ranges for experience, field, and designation: https://www.dwsimpson.com/salary.html

Since that recruiting firm does one, so do other ones so there are a few of them floating around now that get updated annually. It's nice to have it as a comparison, though employers tend to argue that they are inflated to make people want to switch jobs and use recruiting services (maybe true, or maybe an excuse to not pay more).

I got my latest job through the company that put together that report. If anyone is looking for tech/software type jobs I recommend checking them out, I was very impressed with my experience with them. Changing jobs has been a good way of increasing salary, and they make it easy to see what companies are offering.

PM me if you are interested in more info or a referral code (they pay a bonus if you are hired through them, the bonus for the Toronto market is large right now, I guess they are expanding out of the US).

I got my latest job through the company that put together that report. If anyone is looking for tech/software type jobs I recommend checking them out, I was very impressed with my experience with them. Changing jobs has been a good way of increasing salary, and they make it easy to see what companies are offering.

PM me if you are interested in more info or a referral code (they pay a bonus if you are hired through them, the bonus for the Toronto market is large right now, I guess they are expanding out of the US).

That's a really cool report and very similar I think to network engineering in salary and in where to go, starting in a major market and moving vs. the other way around.

I'm kind of surprised to see so many other professors on here, and the range in pay is CRAZY. Being in the social sciences, I know a lot of other fields pay better, but holy crap--190k at the Assistant Level?! Impressive!

I believe the public/private distinction would account for much of the difference in salaries in higher ed in the US. I work at a public institution, in a state which gives very little funding to higher ed. Colorado seems to value roads and prisons above all else. :(

Not sure if you’re interested in how much we do earn in Europe, but here is my current situation:

Title: Data Analyst in a consulting firm (Luxembourg)

Salary: 51.000 EUR + 13th salary + yearly bonus (last year that was 5.000 EUR), which equals to more or less 60.000 EUR p.a. Expecting to get a pay rise of 10-15% effective from January or February 2016. All figures are pre-taxes that pretty overwhelming all over Europe…

Age: 27

Experience: 3 years (4 years including internships etc.)

Education: Master’s degree in Finance

Btw is there any thread here for mustachians in Europe?

Can you tell us what is the after taxes pay that translates to? Any idea about pay for the same type of roles in Belgium? Thank you

Regional Airline CaptainSalary: Around $80k with a small increase each year (major airlines pay more than this)Experience: Almost four years since my first flying job

Thinking of getting into software and currently working on a CS degree (second bachelor's), but the cost makes saving more difficult, so I'm constantly ruminating about whether or not to continue. That money could alternatively also be used to create some sort of side income.